Related Blogs: East Africa
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Examining ways to promote mobile money use in refugee-hosting areas in Ethiopia
Sep 14, 2022 | Alan de Brauw, Shalini Roy
The importance of digital financial inclusion.
Text reminders encourage more women to seek family planning services: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
Aug 24, 2022 | Jessica Leight, Kyle Pico
Benefits of a "nudge" approach.
A glimpse into the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in rural Kenya
Aug 16, 2022 | Harriet Mawia
Effects of lost income and food insecurity linger, particularly for for women, a study shows.
Making cash transfers more effective in reducing intimate partner violence
Jun 24, 2022 | Shalini Roy, Amber Peterman, Lucy Billings
A new phase in understanding how such programs can empower women.
Designing a community referral system to increase financial access among women and refugees in refugee hosting areas in Ethiopia
Jun 15, 2022 | Alan de Brauw, Daniel O. Gilligan, Shalini Roy
A pilot program promotes and studies mobile banking.
Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty
Jun 10, 2022 | Clemens Breisinger , Xinshen Diao, Paul Dorosh, Juneweenex Mbuthia, Lensa Omune, Edwin Ombui Oseko, Angga Pradesha, James Thurlow
Modeling shows lowered GDP and agricultural production for 2022.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens food security in Malawi. How can the country respond?
Apr 27, 2022 | Joachim De Weerdt, Jan Duchoslav
The poor are particularly vulnerable to rising prices of food, vegetable oils, and fertilizers.
What changed when Ugandan farmers rated input quality and local vendor services
Apr 8, 2022 | Bjorn Van Campenhout, Caroline Miehe, David Spielman , Robert Sparrow
The power of consumer opinion.
Estimating smallholder maize yields in Ethiopia with satellites and machine learning
Mar 15, 2022 | Zhe Guo, Billy Babis
A promising method to gauge agricultural output.
What can we really learn from sex-disaggregated data?
Jan 11, 2022 | Bjorn Van Campenhout, Els Lecoutere, David Spielman
Parsing sometimes contradictory responses in household surveys.